The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet, it was effected by Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), and CIA agents working with anti-Communist civilians and army officers. The attempt to encourage a coup d'état, Operation Ajax, required CIA man Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.'s bribing government officials, the news ...

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project). Mossadegh had sought...

In 1953, there was an Iranian coup d'état to remove the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadeq, from power.The coup d'état was nicknamed Operation Ajax.The coup was planned by the CIA and Britain's MI6 in August 1953.. Causes. In 1951, Mossaddeq was the chairman of Iran's Oil Committee.He was highly supported by the people of Iran. At that time, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was in power.

The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and The Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations [Ervand Abrahamian] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years

History Dept. It’s Time to Release the Real History of the 1953 Iran Coup. Contrary to what the U.S. government might think, holding on to the records certainly isn’t helping U.S. interests in ...

In retrospect, the United States sponsored coup d'etat in Iran of August 19, 1953, has emerged as a critical event in postwar world history. The government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq which was ousted in the coup was the last popular, democratically oriented government to hold office in Iran.

The Iranian-Armenian historian Ervand Abrahamian, author of The Coup: 1953, the CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations, said in a recent interview that the coup was designed "to get rid ...

Even the word coup d'état means to overthrow a government. Hence it is incorrect and incomplete to state that the 1953 Iranian coup d'état was the overthrown of the Prime Minister. It was the overthrow of a government as stated in the RS and as per the very definition of the word.

Coup 53 of Iran is the CIA's (Central Intelligence Agency) first successful overthrow of a foreign government. But a copy of the agency's secret history of the coup has surfaced, revealing the inner workings of a plot that set the stage for the Islamic revolution in 1979, and for a generation of anti-American hatred in one of the Middle East's most powerful countries.